Mayer Brown today announces the elevation of 53 lawyers to partner and counsel. The group comprises 35 lawyers who have been promoted to partner, and 18 who have earned the counsel rank. In the aggregate, 55 percent of those promoted are female and 45 percent male.

Convention has been that Hong Kong company laws do not support the holding of fully virtual shareholders meetings. It is because the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance stipulates that shareholder meetings must be held in a physical location with members present in that location.

The crisis in Ukraine has tremendous implications for our clients, many of whom have employees or family directly at risk, operations that have been affected and supply chains that have been interrupted. Mayer Brown’s Ukraine Crisis Core Response team is working to ensure that our clients have access to the critical information and insight that they require.